Category: Army

The Frigate “Admiral Makarov” © Vitaly Nevar/TASS, archive MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. The frigate “Admiral Makarov” built on the Baltic shipyard “Yantar” and equipped with high-precision rocket weapon, will be part of the black sea fleet of Russia in November of this year. This was announced on Saturday by the defense Ministry.

© Yuri Smityuk/TASS VOLGOGRAD, June 10. /Offset. TASS Igor Kalenić/. Tankers of the southern military district (YUVO) won the all-Army competition tank biathlon that ended Saturday at the landfill Prudboy in the Volgograd region, told TASS in the press service of YUVO. “The first place in the team competition at the tank biathlon took tankers of the southern military district, on the second place of the Eastern military district, the third – the team of the Kazan tank school,” said officer of the press service of the military district, noting that the best crew of the T-72B3 at the end of the competition recognized the crew of Junior Sergeant Mikhail Polovnikova from SMD.

© Vitaly Nevar/TASS MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. Radio engineering troops of Russia for 2016 found more than 2 thousand foreign combat aircraft, including 800 intelligence. This was announced by the chief of radio engineering troops of Air and space forces (VKS) Russia the General-major Andrey Coban. “In 2016 the duty forces radio-technical troops was discovered, and escorted over 600 thousand objects, more than 2 thousand combat aircraft, including more than 800 reconnaissance aircraft”, – he told on air of “Echo of Moscow”. According to the General, in the result, the troops were put in readiness number one for last year more than 4 thousand times. In this case, said Coban, the number of violations of the order of use of air space was reduced to 16 in 2016, with several hundred in previous years. “Today we are working effectively at the intersection of the state border, and I can tell

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin © Peter Kovalev/host photo Agency TASS QUEENS, 9 Jun. /TASS/. The products of the Corporation “Tactical missiles” during carrying out operation in Syria has worked well and showed high quality. This opinion was expressed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, speaking on the anniversary of the tactical missiles Corporation. “I congratulate you with this holiday, with the anniversary. This is only the beginning of a larger work which is now being tested in Syria, where everything that is you, or a big part of being tested, refined, brought to mind, but it shows the high class. It’s great, he said. – It actually puts our army, our Navy in a different League.” Rogozin noted that just a few years ago some liberal economists allow themselves to “giggle” over the fact that Russia rusty rocket and rusty factories. “Companies within the scope of the tactical missiles

The AK-12 © The Concern “Kalashnikov” 210 years of the largest Russian developer and manufacturer of combat automatic and sniper weapons, Izhevsk arms factory (Izhmash). Founded in 1807, Russian Emperor Alexander I, now it is part of the concern “Kalashnikov” (Corporation “rostec”). During the Patriotic war of 1812, the factory supplied the Russian army with firearms and machetes. Since that time, no major Russian victory was not without Izhevsk weapons.

Dmitry Rogozin © Alexander Astafyev/press service of the Russian government/TASS MOSCOW, 7 June. /TASS/. Russian defence industry have proposed to the Ministry of defense of the rational variant of the missile system, which will allow you to close all of Russia’s missile dome. This was announced by Vice-Premier Dmitry Rogozin.

The MiG-31 © Donat Sorokin/TASS MOSCOW, June 6. /TASS/. MiG-31 Russia intercepted over the Barents sea near the border of the Russian Federation anti-submarine aircraft of the Norwegian air force P-3C “Orion”. After safe rapprochement Norwegian the plane changed course and went in the direction from the Russian border, told reporters in the defense Ministry. According to authorities, at about 12:30 GMT the means of control of air space over neutral waters of the Barents sea was discovered by a plane flying along the state border of the Russian Federation with the transponder off.

© Yuri Smityuk/TASS The site of BREST /Belarus/, June 6. /TASS/. Participating in the joint anti-terrorist exercises “Slavic brotherhood – 2017” battalion-size tactical group of the Pskov airborne assault division has the title of “shock”, told reporters Deputy head of the manoeuvres from the Russian side, Colonel Alexei Sgibnev.

Su-27 © AP Photo/Ted S. Warren MOSCOW, June 6. /TASS/. Russian su-27 is intercepted and escorted bomber US air force b-52 flying along the border of the Russian Federation over the Baltic sea. This was reported to journalists in the press service of the defense Ministry.

© Victor Vetkin/TASS The site of BREST /Belarus/, June 6. /TASS/. The opening of the joint anti-terrorist exercises “Slavic brotherhood – 2017” was held today in the Belarusian site of Brest. Members of the Armed forces of Russia, Belarus and Serbia congratulated the head maneuvers, the commander of the special operations Forces of Belarus major-General Vadim Denisenko. Deputy head of doctrines from the Russian side, Colonel Alexei Sgibnev noted that “for the first time in the history of the joint exercises “Slavic brotherhood” Armed forces of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Serbia on the current doctrines of national military contingents of the participating countries formed a multinational battalion-size tactical group, which will practice performing counter-terrorism tasks in the framework of peacekeeping operations”. Sgibnev stressed that the upcoming practical actions of the Russian, Belarusian and Serbian military as part of a single unit show “on